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    Emanuel reacted to Andrew - EOSHD in Sports Broadcasters are apparently the only ones buying Blackmagic Design gear these days.   
    The reason Blackmagic are out of the consumer / prosumer market now, is that the Japanese cameras are too good and too cheap.
    Blackmagic can't compete with an X-H2 shooting ProRes 422 8K for under $1500.
    Also the profit margins in the broadcast stuff is massive.
    It's funny isn't it, how the industry has pivoted back to where everything was before 2010, pre DSLR!
    The only thing missing now are new small chip ENG shoulder cams! Then we can truly party like it's 2008!
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    Emanuel got a reaction from kaylee in Fav AI outcome out there...   
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    Emanuel got a reaction from majoraxis in Happy Easter to all!   
    To those like me, this is the most important day of the year, so my best wishes to everyone!
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    Emanuel got a reaction from jbCinC_12 in Happy Easter to all!   
    To those like me, this is the most important day of the year, so my best wishes to everyone!
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    Emanuel reacted to Aussie Ash in Happy Easter to all!   
    A steam train visited Sydney for Easter so it was fun to capture some video of it.The day was overcast so didn't use any ND filters.The lens is an clunky old AF-S 24-85 non VR that needs persuasion to get past a notch at 50mm 

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    Emanuel reacted to Andrew - EOSHD in Happy Easter to all!   
    Happy easter everyone, good spring weather to get the camera bag out
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    Emanuel reacted to fuzzynormal in Happy Easter to all!   
    As an American I'd like to quote the immortal words, the best words, the POTUS has shared on this holiest of days, "Praise be to Allah"
    Seriously though, it would be wonderful if there were more folks truly (not just pretending) trying to live by the actual authentic philosophies of the New Testament.  If only we could be so lucky.
    Happy Easter.
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    Emanuel got a reaction from Aussie Ash in Fav AI outcome out there...   
    Here you have straight from Mr. Vogel, Mike Vogel, Milady:
     
    Love this one BTW...

    Addressed to all naysayers : X
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    Emanuel got a reaction from Aussie Ash in Happy Easter to all!   
    To those like me, this is the most important day of the year, so my best wishes to everyone!
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    Emanuel reacted to Aussie Ash in Let there be light... New Nikon CEO   
    There is also Chinese camera manufacturers like DJI,Insta360 and Z-cam capturing specialised market share
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    Emanuel reacted to Aussie Ash in Let there be light... New Nikon CEO   
    They could learn with Blackmagic.
    They could learn with Red.
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    Emanuel reacted to fuzzynormal in Fav AI outcome out there...   
    Let's keep the debate goin'
    ...Can't wait for the next great prompt artist to really bring their vision to the screen.  No one prompts as well as that Vogel dude.  That guy prompts.  Why try to create a golden hour scene when you can just ask for it?  Nothing says artistic cinema like a computer deriving and stealing other's hard work.
    :-|
    Should we go to an art museum to look at some lesser talent's paint-by-numbers?  The creation matters.  Now let's do motion pictures.  Cinema has always been craft as well as the art.  Minimize the craft, minimize the art.
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    Emanuel got a reaction from kaylee in Fav AI outcome out there...   
    Here you have straight from Mr. Vogel, Mike Vogel, Milady:
     
    Love this one BTW...

    Addressed to all naysayers : X
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    Emanuel reacted to Andrew - EOSHD in Let there be light... New Nikon CEO   
    Nikon has a new boss
    An optics engineer... not an accountant. Wishing him well for the future...
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    Emanuel reacted to kye in New cinema camera...?   
    100% - I'd assume that this was the best image that an expert with all the other associated equipment was able to get with a decent travel budget and after a decent period of having it.
    I've always maintained that there are three useful references for a piece of equipment:
    The best images that anyone is able to create
    This shows the upper limit of its potential The images that competent reviewers get
    This shows the type of images that people of moderate skill are able to get in non-ideal conditions The worst images
    You never get to see these until you get one yourself, but in theory this would show how fragile/flexible the camera is (for example you can expose an Alexa pretty horribly wrong and still get a half-decent image from it, but try that with a camcorder and it's a complete disaster) The promo is only the first category, and the fact there are only a few shots in there is a statement in itself.
    I think the 15mm is a lot better than people make out, but of course most discourse online is from people who think that a Zeiss Otus is the ideal lens and that Michael Bay doesn't use large enough apertures.  To be honest, when reading / listening to most opinions now I am just hearing that the person hasn't been to the cinema for years, hasn't watched any/much classic cinema, and isn't even familiar with the saying "F8 and be there" let alone thinks that it is the cornerstone of almost all the important photography in the history of the field.
    I was always interested in the 9mm but as I bought the SLR Magic 8mm F4 as one of the first lenses I bought, then upgraded to the Laowa 7.5mm F2 lens later on, the selection of slow wider pancake lenses was never really justified for me.
    Right, I guess that makes the moon shot even easier then.  If you have enough light then almost any camera will look pretty good.
    Looking at the mount again, there doesn't appear to be any visible mechanism to attach the lens..

    I'm wondering if this might be a magnetic mount of some kind, like MagSafe perhaps.  If that's true then it might just be a matter of pulling the lens off and snapping another one on.  That would certainly fit with the GoPro ethos of it being a fast no-nonsense experience.
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    Emanuel got a reaction from Aussie Ash in Steven Spielberg Names his six favourite movies that influenced his career   
    Love your posts as contribution here BTW ; ) keep going :- )
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    Emanuel got a reaction from kye in Anthony Mann & John Alton /Film Noir tribute runs 3 minutes   
    "How Another Man REALLY Shaped Wong Kar-Wai's Aesthetic // Christopher Doyle" is a far better title... ; )
    (>_<)

    WTF Lies?? Well, I (try to) follow the point but perhaps when the verb is irregular instead? : X 
    oh gosh
    Wong Kar-Wai’s directing is just something from another world (FULL stop!) ...for those who truly understand its meaning.
     
    Cinematography is part of the filmmaking process, no doubt about that, but I tend to see the other, more distorted side of the debate: those who overlook who truly shapes the work, when the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts.
     
    - EAG :- )
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    Emanuel reacted to Aussie Ash in Anthony Mann & John Alton /Film Noir tribute runs 3 minutes   
    Even more amazing they were low budget B-movies with shoot schedules under five weeks !
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    Emanuel reacted to kye in Anthony Mann & John Alton /Film Noir tribute runs 3 minutes   
    Not even in 4K!
    It's like they've never watched a single YT tutorial on how to make their footage cinematic.
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    Emanuel reacted to Aussie Ash in Anthony Mann & John Alton /Film Noir tribute runs 3 minutes   
    Based on the collaboration between director Anthony Mann and cinematographer John Alton, here are the films they worked on together:
    T-Men (1947)
    Raw Deal (1948)
    He Walked by Night (1948) - Mann directed most of the film but was uncredited
    Reign of Terror (also known as The Black Book) (1949)
    Border Incident (1949)
    Devil's Doorway (1950)
    The full movie of "He Walked by Night" is on youtube 
     
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    Emanuel reacted to Aussie Ash in Anthony Mann & John Alton /Film Noir tribute runs 3 minutes   
    Part of the reason they could make these film was the introduction of Kodak Eastmann Super  XX film after WW2.It was rated at around 160-200 ASA which was over 2 stops faster than film of the 1930s.It also was known for its ability to be pushed (underexposing and overdeveloping)It was regularly pushed one stop to 320AS and sometimes two stops to 640ASA like on Citizen Kane. 

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    Emanuel reacted to fuzzynormal in Anthony Mann & John Alton /Film Noir tribute runs 3 minutes   
    Well that was awesome.
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